“Countdown”: Beyoncé’s Feminist Reversal of the “Catalog Song”

In this post I argue that Beyonce’s “Countdown”—both as a song and as a video—critiques a canonical, but quite misogynist, style of song. The “catalog song” is a centuries-old format: a dude ticks off a list of all the women…

Sovereign Harmony and Biopolitical Frequency: Or, what Attali and LMFAO can teach us about neoliberalism

“Every major social rupture has been preceded by an essential mutation in the codes of music, in its mode of audition, and in its economy” (Attali, Noise 10).[1] So I’ve been thinking more about this idea of “transmission,” and I’ve…

Come to my talk in Charlotte on Tuesday November 8th!

Come to my talk in Charlotte on Tuesday November 8th!

Tuesday November 8th I’ll be giving a talk about my book, The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music, as part of UNC Charlotte’s  “Personally Speaking” series. It will take place at the new Uptown Campus at 9th…

From Identity to Profile: Superpanopticism, Race as Technology, and hopefully some clarification for my transnational feminism class

For the past two weeks, my transnational feminism class has been working our way through Jasbir Puar’s Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. We’ve only begun to scratch the surface of this text, and I think many of felt things…